Community Implementation Program
Overview
This program encourages the development of partnerships among researchers and community-based treatment and other public health settings, for evidenced-based secondary HIV prevention and treatment adherence interventions. Dissemination is the targeted distribution of information and intervention materials to a specific public health or clinical practice audience. The intent is to spread knowledge and the associated evidence-based interventions. Implementation is the use of strategies to introduce or change evidence-based health interventions within specific settings. Although capacity-building for doing behavioral and social interventions in community, clinical and other settings is an oft-discussed goal among researchers and policy-makers who foster dissemination of interventions, the science of capacity-building and technology transfer remains underdeveloped. Whenever possible, applications should involve collaborations that include expertise from disciplines with theoretical and applied expertise in such domains — for example, community psychology, organizational psychology, and services researchers.
Areas of Emphasis
- Identify the contextual issues that affect intervention adoption, adaptation, and effectiveness.
- Development and testing of different modes for transferring efficacious interventions into community and clinic-based settings.
- Examine how financing of organizations (and reimbursement) and other service-related issues affect intervention adoption and effectiveness.
Contact
Christopher M. Gordon, Ph.D.
Branch Chief
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 6212, MSC 9619
301-443-1613, cgordon1@mail.nih.gov
